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STAR-CD V4 - Now fully polyhedra-enabled!
Less memory, faster convergence, with fewer cells: STAR-CD V4, the latest version of CD-adapco's flagship CFD code, is available now.
STAR-CD V4 brings new state-of-the-art solver technology to STAR-CD users, without compromising the advanced modeling and complex physics capabilities for which STAR-CD is the undisputed market leader. By using the latest polyhedra-solver technology, STAR-CD V4 delivers significant benefits in speed, robustness and usability.
Benefits include:
- Polyhedral cells: STAR-CD V4 is fully polyhedra-enabled. Polyhedral meshes are as automatic to build as tetrahedral meshes, but have a number of other benefits: solving on a polyhedral mesh requires less memory, convergence is attained faster, and the same level of accuracy can be obtained using significantly fewer cells.
- Improved Analysis of Free Surface Flows: STAR-CD V4 introduces state-of-the-art free surface modeling, developing the COMET-based technology that is used extensively throughout the marine industry.
- Extra Transient Options: STAR-CD V4 extends STAR-CD's market leading capabilities for simulating transient flows with the addition of a new solution algorithm and a high order discretisation scheme.
- New Liquid Film model: Reinforcing STAR-CD’s leading spray
modeling with the implementation of a state-of-the-art liquid film
model.
- Memory management: STAR-CD V4 includes improved dynamic memory
handling, further easing the solution of very large problems.
- Inter-operability with STAR-CCM+: STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+ now use a common file format, allowing transparent access to the full suite of CD-adapco's solutions.
“While other CFD vendors are content to simply build upon their existing aging software architectures, with STAR-CCM+ and now STAR-CD V4, we have achieved our aim of basing all of our solvers on the most advanced solver technology available.”
For more advice on the applicability of STAR-CD V4 to your cases please contact your local support office.